Week 13 Quiz

The fragment "an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery" comes from which document?

Select one.

• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
• South Carolina's declaration
• The Stamp Act Congress declarations
• Dred Scott v. Sandford

How does the course roster record the document type of South Carolina's declaration?

Select one.

• A declaration of independence
• A federal statute passed by Congress
• A declaration of causes
• A presidential proclamation

In what year was South Carolina's declaration adopted, as the course chronology records it?

Select one.

• 1860
• 1861
• 1857
• 1776

In his First Inaugural Address, what did Lincoln say about slavery in the states where it already existed?

Select one.

• He promised to abolish it as soon as Congress met
• He said the Supreme Court would now decide its future
• He promised to extend it into every federal territory
• He said he had no purpose to interfere with it there

True or false: South Carolina's declaration, read by itself, shows what every Confederate soldier believed about the war.

True or false.

• True
• False

In the course's evidence-claims set, how is this statement keyed: every Southern state seceded for exactly the reasons South Carolina gave?

Select one.

• It shows what the source says, because the declaration speaks for the South
• It goes beyond the source, because one state's declaration cannot show every state's reasons
• It shows what the source says, because the declaration was adopted first
• It goes beyond the source, because the declaration never mentions slavery

Which cause do the Stamp Act Congress declarations of 1765 name in their pinned fragment?

Select one.

• Taxes imposed on the colonists without their own consent
• The free states' hostility to the institution of slavery
• The rights of states in general, with no grievance named
• High tariffs on goods shipped from the Northern states

Which list puts these in chronological order, earliest first: the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and South Carolina's declaration of causes?

Select one.

• Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, Lincoln's First Inaugural, South Carolina's declaration
• Kansas-Nebraska Act, Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott, South Carolina's declaration, Lincoln's First Inaugural
• Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott, Kansas-Nebraska Act, South Carolina's declaration, Lincoln's First Inaugural
• Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, South Carolina's declaration, Lincoln's First Inaugural

Select every statement that matches the course's record of the week's two documents.

Select every option that applies.

• South Carolina's declaration is kept by the Avalon Project
• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address is an inaugural address kept by the Avalon Project
• South Carolina's declaration was adopted after Lincoln's inaugural
• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address is a presidential proclamation kept by the National Archives
• South Carolina's declaration is a federal statute passed by Congress

The fragment "We are not enemies, but friends." comes from which document?

Select one.

• George Washington's Farewell Address
• South Carolina's declaration
• Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
• Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address